Sandy DeMond

Sandy DeMond is Senior Vice President & Director of Community Banking for Busey Bank. She joined TheBANK of Edwardsville in 2012, which was acquired by Busey Bank in 2019.

With over 20 years of industry experience, Sandy collaboratively works with key stakeholders and business segment leaders to continue to build and grow Busey’s relationships with the communities that we serve. By creating and expanding innovative products and services through our community centric approach, she and her team focus on lending initiatives to better serve all customers.
Sandy manages Busey’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) mortgage effort and is responsible for the strategy, development and growth of mortgages serving low-to-moderate income families, supervising a mortgage lending team that specializes in educating and helping people navigate the home loan process.

In addition, she was involved in the development of the bank's CRA mortgage loan product, the MyCOMMUNITY Home Loan, which launched in 2014. In June 2023, the Community Banking Team achieved a significant milestone by providing over $100 million in home loan funding for over 800 families with the loan program.

With her deep ties to the Hispanic community, Sandy was also instrumental in securing a banking center location within the Fairmont City, Illinois, community library. The location opened in 2015 and is the only fully bi-lingual banking center in the St. Louis market.

Her efforts to help others have not gone unrecognized. In 2020, Sandy was named to the prestigious St. Louis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 list. In 2023, she received an honorable mention for the American Bankers Association George Bailey Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes those who go above and beyond to serve their banks, their colleagues, their industry and especially their communities.